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Unseen Passage for Class 10 with Answer Set-9 PDF 2025

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Unseen Passage for Class 10 with Answer Set-9 PDF 2025 – Unseen passages play a key role in the CBSE Class 10 English exam. To score well in English, students should practice various types of unseen passages. This will help them secure all 20 marks from the reading section in the English Language and Literature paper.

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Unseen Passage for Class 10 with Answer Set-9

1. The apologists of terror tell us that the root cause of terrorism is the deprivation of national and civic rights and that the way to stop terror is to redress the supposed grievances that arise from this deprivation.

2. But the root cause of terrorism, the deliberate targeting of civilians, is not the deprivation of rights. If it were, then in the thousands of conflicts and struggles for national and civil rights in modern times we would see countless instances of terrorism. But we do not.

3. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the Independence of India without resorting to terrorism. So too did the people of Eastern Europe in their struggle to bring down the Berlin Wall and Martin Luther King’s campaign for equal rights for all Americans eschewed all violence, much less terrorism.

4. If the deprivation of rights is indeed the root cause of terrorism, why did all these people pursue their cause without resorting to terror? Put simply, because they were democrats, not terrorists. They believed in the sanctity of human life, were committed to the ideals of liberty and championed the values of democracy.

5. But those who practice terrorism do not believe in these things. In fact, they believe in the very opposite. For them, the cause they espouse is so all encompassing, so total, that it justifies anything. It allows them to break any law, discard any moral code and trample all human rights into the dust. In their eyes, it permits them to indiscriminately murder and maim innocent men and women and lets them blow up a bus full of children.

6. There is a name for the doctrine that produces this evil. It is called totalitarianism. Only a totalitarian regime, by systemically brainwashing its subjects, can indoctrinate hordes of killers to suspend all moral constraints for the sake of a twisted cause. That is why from its inception, totalitarianism has always been wedded to terrorism–from Lenin to Stalin to Hitler to the Ayatollahs to Saddam Hussein, right down to Osama Bin Laden and Yasser Arafat.

7. It is merely that the goals of terrorists do not justify the means they choose, it is that the means they choose tell us what true goals are. Those who fight as terrorists rule as terrorists. People, who deliberately target the innocent, never become leaders who protect freedom and human rights. When terrorists seize power, they invariably set up the darkest of dictatorships—whether in Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan. (414 Words)

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer any five out of the seven questions by choosing the correct option.

(i) According to the author, what, from the following, is the root cause of terrorism?
(a) The deprivation of national and civic rights.
(b) A belief that their cause is justified.
(c) Unjustified violence against the innocent.
(d) A hatred for tranquility in the world.

(ii) Select the option that suitably completes the dialogue with reference to the above passage.
John: Did you see the news last night? Can you believe the terrorist had the audacity to blame everyone for what he did?
Jeremy: Yes, I saw it. It was preposterous. His actions …………. .
(a) were not that dire, considering what happened to him.
(b) were justified after what happened to him.
(c) cannot be justified by blaming others for his misfortunes.
(d) cannot be justified by anyone other than himself.

(iii) Choose the option that best conveys the message in– “There is a name for the doctrine that produces this evil.”
(a) The totalitarian doctrine produces people who later become apologists of terror.
(b) Terrorism often results in totalitarianism.
(c) Terrorism is born of a totalitarian regime.
(d) None of the above

(iv) Select the option with the underlined words that can suitably replace ‘eschewed’ (paragraph 3).
(a) The Communist system indulged in political liberties in favour of economic ones.
(b) But there is no evidence that they agreed with water baptism.
(c) Also, copyright works are generally desperately angered with, therefore no copyright is levied on sales.
(d) Britain was a naval superpower, but had traditionally abstained from maintaining a big standing army at home.

(v) Alliteration refers to the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

From the options given below, select a phrase from the above passage that can be an example of alliteration.
(a) “Deliberate targeting of civilians”
(b) “Darkest of dictatorships”
(c) “Deprivation of national and civic rights”
(d) “Championed the values of democracy”

(vi) Select the option that lists the qualities demonstrated by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King that the author would want us to imbibe.
Being
(1) Dictators
(2) Patriotic
(3) Callous
(4) A Leader
(5) Determined
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2, 3 and 5
(c) 1, 2 and 4
(d) 2, 4 and 5

(vii) Choose the option that lists the quote best expressing the central idea of the passage.
(a) Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible and demanding it at gunpoint. (Christopher Hitchens)
(b) Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity. (Atal Bihari Vajpayee)
(c) Terrorism and deception are weapons, not of the strong, but of the weak. (Mahatma Gandhi)
(d) None of the above

Answer & Explanation

(i) (b) According to the author of the given passage, the root cause of terrorism is their belief that their actions and belief are completely justifiable.
(ii) (c) In the given passage, it is propagated that for terrorists everyone except them are to be blamed for their actions.
(iii) (c) According to the author of the passage, total itarianism brainwashes people and
indoctrinate the ideals of violence and immorality. Such ideals lead to terrorism.
(iv) (d) The word ‘eschewed’ means to abstain or avoid.
(v) (b) The sound of ‘d’ is repeated in ‘Darkest of dictatorships’.
(vi) (d) In their actions, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King were patriotic leaders who were determined to further their cause.
(vii) (d) None of the above expresses the central idea of the passage.